Hello!

I am an assistant professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. I study how citizen-state relationships affect state-building, development, and political trust. Most of my work focuses on post-conflict contexts in Africa.

My book (Governing After War) explores post-war statebuilding after rebel victory, focusing in particular on how rebel governance shapes post-war resource allocation and the consolidation of power when rebels win war. My other projects examine post-war development, conflict legacies, and the determinants of political polarization and disengagement.

My research has been published, or is forthcoming in, the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, and others. I was a 2018-2019 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). I received my PhD in government from Harvard in 2020. From 2020-2023, I was an assistant professor at UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.